how to assistance please

[Capt_Kirk]

Hey all,

I keep reading where customizers are taking pez dispenser heads and making custom mego heads. Can someone please describe this process to me. It doesn't seem too difficult but I don't want to screw it up either.
thanks in advance.
Lee

[Capt_Kirk]

Geezzz, I remember it being a lot easier to get a reply on this site. Have you all turned into anti-socials?!?!

[sauce]

Hi!

I like PEZ.

:-)

[BATMAN89]

Sorry, I never tried the Pez head thing.
If I did, I think that I would make a mold around the Pez head, then cast it in resin, and add a neck plug later.

[megocrazy]

Hi!

I like PEZ.

:-)

Funny.

The PEZ head is fairly simple to remove using a small flathead screwdriver. While I choose to sculpt a neck piece to it using sculpy or something along those lines, I have seen everything from a piece of wooden dowel to rolled up craft foam used to construct a neck piece. If you choose to use sculpy or some clay variation, don't oven bake it unless you build it as an insert and remove it from the head. PEZ heads are not fond of ovens. It depresses them....into molten pools of plastic goo. The wooden dowel seems to be the best for that route. Just cut it to length, and secure the dowel, in the head using some form of adhesive. I suggest rubber cement or epoxy. If you want it some what more secure fasten a small eye hook to the bottom of the dowel and use it to connect it to the bottom leg pins with an elastic inside the torso. That will keep it firm if your dowel is smaller than the hole your putting it in. Hate it when my dowel is too small.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I keep all my miscast parts, and for the Pez heads I'll file down a dud casting so it fits inside, glue it in and putty up the hole as neccessary.

Don C.

[Capt_Kirk]

Wow! multiple responses. thanks guys. that's the mego board I remember thanks. That's what I figured but, just checking ; )

[stuart]

I've even used a dowel, epoxy, and an eye hook. You'll have to run elastic down to the pin in the pelvis. It works like a charm.

[BATMAN89]

You all are talking about using the actual Pez head?

[Megotu]

I have used some pez heads as a mask or helmet type of head over a vintage or recent mego type head. The Nascar helmets jusy need to be dremelled out as well as the XWing fighter helmet. Yoda went onto an extra Eddie Munster I had lying around. Really depends on how into the casting you are...and which heads you are using.

[Capt_Kirk]

I have an old Batman and just picked up a great new Thor that I want to mod as a mego head. I cut a plug off an old kirk and added a post to it, then cast it. I'm going to add that the use putty to make it the desired shape in the back then cast it. It should work pretty good. I'm just trying to decide how to tackle Thor's long hair that's cast in the Pez head. I'll figure it out though. I always do. ; )